Arts & Culture
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1065"] From left to right, Libby Pratt, Leila Block, Ryan Christopher Jones, Lynette Ngulube, Connor Colbert, K Van Petten, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, Emily Ross, and Melissa O'Neil. Photo courtesy of Centrum [/caption] A Centrum Residency Column by Melissa O’
opinion
Opinion by Crystie Kisler, Director of Nonprofit Services, Jefferson Community Foundation How can we live in communities where all are fed what they need? That’s always a critical question and one that became even more amplified last month when the government shutdown caused a suspension of SNAP food assistance
opinion
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2316"] Oceana Sawyer and Cendre Hunt, The NBC team. [/caption] Opinion by Oceana Sawyer, Program Director, Nourishing Beloved Community What is food sovereignty? Particularly, what does it mean for people of the global majority to have agency in how we feed
Arts & Culture
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1599"] Port Gamble S’Klallam elder and former tribal chair Ron Charles (Left) and anthropologist Josh Wisniewski. Photo courtesy of Empty Bowl Press [/caption] News by Angela Downs On Friday, November 14, at the Meeting House in Port Townsend, Empty Bowl
school news
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4512"] Supaman brought a message of joy and Indigenous pride to Port Townsend High School on Thursday evening. photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] News by Scott France Port Townsend elementary, middle and high school
Columnist
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3013"] Northwind Art Jewelry Studio students show off the enamel earrings made in a recent Sunday workshop. Photo by Diane Urbani. [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] A Northwind Art Column by Diane Urbani de la Paz “The purpose of art is
Local News
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2268"] Scott Walker and Obsidian on one of the many trails of the system that Walker started almost 40 years ago. Photo by Scott France [/caption] News by Scott France The iconic Port Townsend city trails system was developed not through
Local News
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1179"] Union Warf. Photo courtesy of the Port of Port Townsend [/caption] News by Angela Downs After a proposed increase in cruise line traffic caused some public concern, the port commission voted, on November 12, to increase the fee for a
Local News
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4608"] Photo by Scott France [/caption] News by Scott France As the dark, wet days of winter envelop Jefferson County, the depth and breadth of hunger threatens to rise. And with it, the challenge for local food assistance programs to meet
Columnist
[caption id align="alignnone" width="995"] Photo by Jessaca Kéet [/caption] Chlorophyll Corner is a monthly column by Eden Blooms that explores the cultural, ecological, and medicinal relationships between people and plants. Grounded in ethnobotany and the One Health model, it examines how traditional plant knowledge
Environment
Explanatory journalism by Mark Rose The behavior of the Dosewallips River dictates Brinnon’s future as a rural community. Most of Brinnon’s 66-acre Rural Village Center (RVC), which designates areas for small businesses and cottage industries—known as the Brinnon flats—lies within the 100-year floodplain of
Local News
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4045"] Logan Hollarsmith after his return. Photo by Nhatt Nichols [/caption] News by Nhatt Nichols On a rainy Uptown afternoon, Logan Hollarsmith arrived at Conduit Coffee directly from an acupuncture and sauna session, apologizing for his messy hair and full of